Only two games on the docket and Las Vegas were the only winners. New Hampshire were rained out and Lansing had a scheduled day-off. Reportedly Adam Lind is on waivers which expire today. Teams that were interested in him have had three games to get a good look at him before the deadline. Lind had two more hits last night.
A 3-1 night for the affiliates and it could have easily been 4-0. Two of the teams reached double digits in the run column and another made sure the opposition put up nothing but zeroes.
The affiliates won three games. Justin Nicolino and Aaron Sanchez were almost unhittable with just three hits allowed in eight combined innings.
Despite managing just eight runs combined over four games, the affiliates split Saturday thanks to some strong pitching and timely hitting.
Lansing and Dunedin, with .707 and .659
winning percentages stayed their courses, each bringing home the bacon. Las Vegas (20-21) and New Hampshire (16-23)
continued their struggles, each with sub .500 records on the year.
In every minor league affair involving a Blue Jays affiliate on Thursday, the losing team scored a single run and 3 out of 4 times, that worked out in our favor.
Brett Cecil had his best start of the year in the first game of New Hampshire’s doubleheader. However, the other three games in the system didn’t go nearly so well, as late inning relievers blew leads or surrendered game-winning runs in the late innings.
Dunedin won easily behind Casey Lawrence and Marcus Knecht. Knecht had two home runs and Lawrence pitched eight innings. Lansing won a one run game, Aaron Sanchez pitched well, Justin Nicolino did OK. Las Vegas lost but Travis Snider did hit a home run. New Hampshire had a doubleheader rained out.
A perfect night on the farm for the three affiliates in action. New Hampshire had the day off.
Three hits from both Chris Hawkins and Chris Schaeffer led to the only win on the day for the Blue Jays affiliates.
38 runs scored in four games for the affiliates. Not surprisingly, that led to a few notable performances.
Outscored 22 to 15 and out hit 39 to 27, only one Jays farm
team won Friday. Las Vegas didn’t play
and Dunedin scrapped their way to a win with some decent 9 strike out
pitching. New Hampshire started their
disaster early giving up 5 runs in the first inning and then got tagged for
three home runs in later innings. They
didn’t recover.
Three out of four teams lost in Thursday's action, in a slate of games which featured some outcomes that one might not have expected at all.
Strong starts in Triple-A and the Midwest League led to victories, with the former being a come-from-behind extra-inning affair. Meanwhile, the Fisher Cats lost in Brett Cecil’s return to the diamond and a first inning grand slam put Dunedin in a hole that Jake Marisnick and Sean Ochinko couldn’t lead the team out of
Some offensive players had big nights. Marcus Knecht had four hits and two home runs; Ryan Schimpf had two hits in one inning, one of them a home run; Anthony Gose had two hits, including a two run triple; and Kenny Wilson and Kevin Pillar each had three hits with a triple. The farm delivered two wins, one loss, and a rainout.
